A few minutes later, Negron was dead at 15, from bullets fired by Bridgeport Police Officer James Boulay last May 9. The incident led to a Connecticut State Police investigation that culminated in the release Friday afternoon of a report from Waterbury State’s Attorney Maureen Platt.

Boulay was cleared of criminal responsibility by Platt’s report, setting off protests in Waterbury and Bridgeport that lasted into the night.

Demonstrators said Boulay was guilty of murder, that Negron was deprived of adequate medical attention after he was shot, and that he was left to die on the street.

Platt’s report told a different story of the shooting and its aftermath.

The document detailed how Negron was driving a stolen Subaru Forester accompanied by Julian Fyffe, then 21, when he led officers on a brief pursuit that ended on Fairfield Avenue. After failed attempts to get Negron out of the car, Boulay was struck behind the open driver’s-side door as Negron put the car in reverse and hit the gas pedal, the report said.

Boulay fired into the car, fatally wounding Negron and injuring Fyffe, who recovered from his injuries.

For Negron to survive his wounds, he would have needed surgery within minutes of being shot, a doctor said in the report.

Assistant Medical Examiner Gregory A. Vincent, of the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner in Farmington, performed the autopsy on Negron, details of which were included in Platt’s report.

A fatal wound

The cause of death was stated as gunshot wounds to the torso and upper extremities. The manner of death was ruled a homicide. Negron was shot four times.

One bullet “passed through Jayson Negron’s ribcage, through his left lung, the heart, the right lung and struck the right side of the ribcage,” Platt’s report said.

Vincent said that was likely the bullet that killed Negron, who was also shot in his right upper arm, the left upper quadrant of his abdomen and in his left forearm, according to the report.

American Civil Liberties Union Connecticut Executive Director David McGuire said those findings don’t change his belief that Boulay didn’t have to fire.

“It was completely avoidable,” McGuire said Saturday.

Platt’s report, however, said Boulay “reasonably believed that the use of deadly force was necessary to defend himself from the use of deadly force — that being the Subaru operated by Jayson Negron.”

McGuire said the facts don’t prove Boulay had no other option.

“The officer should have never put himself in the position to have to do that,” McGuire said. “There’s really no reason it should have played out the way that it did.”

Bleeding out

Detective John Kimball — who Platt said worked full-time on the State Police investigation — met with Vincent twice to discuss the autopsy.

“Given the nature and severity of the injuries suffered by Jayson Negron, in order to survive, Mr. Negron would have required surgical intervention within minutes of the shooting,” the report said Vincent indicated.

Since Negron suffered theses injures on a congested city street, more than 2 miles from the closest hospital, “his probability of surviving his injuries was low,” Vincent is quoted as saying in the report.

American Medical Response Paramedic Supervisor Robert Calzone, the first medic on scene, arrived at 5:09 p.m., the report said — seven minutes after the shooting was called in.

Calzone described Negron’s skin as gray and ashen, indications of “a large amount of blood loss,” the paramedic supervisor’s statement said.

“The only way to stem the type of bleeding experienced by Jayson Negron would have involved surgical intervention which fell well beyond the scope of the first responders,” Vincent told Kimball.

Calls for help

A minute-long video posted on social media shortly after the shooting — and included in Platt’s report — showed Negron face down but moving on the pavement before medics arrived.

“Numerous postings online have concluded that this video demonstrates that Bridgeport police officers callously failed to call for medical assistance in a timely fashion,” Platt said in her report.

But for eight minutes after the shooting, Bridgeport police officers at the scene called for medics to “step it up” at least five times, an audio recording in Platt’s report indicated.

“It should also be noted it appears that medical assistance was called for within twelve seconds of the report of ‘shots fired,’ ” the report said.

Mark Blackwell was one of the officers at the scene, shortly after the shooting. He said in a written statement that he heard Negron softly moaning, and that he put on latex gloves to try to assess the teen’s injuries.

“I now noticed he had blood coming from underneath him and I told him to hang on,” Blackwell wrote. He said Negron’s shirt was soaked with blood.

Soon after, Blackwell said, Negron began gurgling and became “completely unresponsive.” That is when Blackwell requested that medics be expedited, the report said.

“I then asked Sgt. Morales if I could un-handcuff (Negron) due to him being unresponsive, and he advised me to wait for the medics, due to the severity of the wounds,” Blackwell wrote in his witness statement.

Negron was pronounced dead at 5:15 p.m., as he lay on Fairfield Avenue.

Today's Top Insider StoriesOur journalists provide in-depth analysis and reporting about the people, places and issues that matter most to you. Subscribers get access to all of their comprehensive coverage.Stories from Insider